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Busting the Mainstream: Portland’s Thriving BizarroCon Community

BizzaroCon Reading

I’m bored, and nobody loves me. That’s not exactly true, because I have a big family, so there’s always something I MUST do. But what can I do for fun? I think, generally, people do want to belong somewhere, to someTHING, and that is part of the reason why church services are often advertised as …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 25 July 2016

Elm Street remake

Welcome to Must Read Horror, where we search the internet for the best horror articles of the week so you don’t have to. Without further ado: A Nightmare Of A Task: Writing The Elm Street Remake 10 Horror Films That Take Place Outdoors Why The Blair Witch Project Is An Important Movie Director Tommy Lee …

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From Out of Nowhere: The Phenomenon of Stranger Things

Stranger Things

From Out of Nowhere: The Phenomenon of Stranger Things A single mother’s youngest son vanishes into thin air. The desperate search begins, but with very little clues to go on, time is running out. The missing boy’s three friends decide to hunt for him, ignoring the police chief’s stern warning to stay out of the …

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The Cutting Room – Sharknado 4: The 4th Awakens

Sharknado 4

Five years after the East Coast was ravaged in Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No! Fin, his family and the cosmos have been blissfully sharknado-free in the intervening years, but now sharks—and ‘nados!—are being whipped up in places (and ways) least expected… Why we’re looking forward to this: Are we really up to a fourth Sharknado …

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Tattered Tomes: Stephen King’s Firestarter Revisited

Stephen King Firestarter

Sometime around 1983 I finally secured a copy of Stephen King’s Firestarter in the form of a dog-eared paperback barely held together by the binding. Upon opening the book for the first time, some of the pages at the front fell out of the book, and I thought about calling the library to explain what …

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Look Out For… Blighters by Tim Major and The Hidden Back Room by Jason A. Wyckoff

Look Out For… Blighters by Tim Major “Blighters is a peculiar and somehow very British take on the alien invasion theme.” Them Blighters are everywhere. They fell out of the sky last year, great horrible armour-plated slugs with razor-sharp fangs. But ugly as they are, they give the ultimate high to anyone nearby: a blissful, …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 18 July 2016

David Cronenberg

Welcome to Must Read Horror, where we search the internet for the best horror articles of the week so you don’t have to. Without further ado: 15 great horror films on Netflix 7 of Horror Director David Cronenberg’s Most Twisted Movies Save the Slashers: In Defence of 80’s Horror Movies The H Word: On Writing …

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The Cutting Room – Bed of the Dead

Bed of the Dead film

A gruesome and bizarre romp about curious couples at a haunted sex club who find themselves imprisoned on a massive and massively evil mattress. Why we’re looking forward to this: Yes, it’s another one of those movies that part of you knows you really should avoid like the plague, but has such a preposterous premise …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 11 July 2016

Welcome to Must Read Horror, where we search the internet for the best horror articles of the week so you don’t have to. Without further ado: 5 Unmade Ray Harryhausen Films We Wish Existed 10 Politically Themed Horror Films Neil Marshall Talks Dark Signal Revisiting Cabin in the Woods Evil Dead II Kickstarter Board Game …

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The Cutting Room – Model Hunger

Model Hunger film

Former pinup model Ginny had been cast aside by the heartless and exploitative modelling industry.  Ginny didn’t take rejection well and grew into a revenge-seeking, bloodthirsty, broken woman. When her new neighbours Debbie and Sal move in, Debbie begins to notice strange things going on—Sal believes she is mentally unstable, but Debbie becomes determined to …

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